| Description | Minutes of meetings of the Head Court, which met annually at Michaelmas to agree the level of cess required. (No meetings were held at Michaelmas 1768 or Michaelmas 1769; the levels of cess were instead approved in February 1769 and February 1770 dated respectively.) Each Head Court minute includes lists of heritors and burgesses present and absent. 9 Nov 1765 - 2 Nov 1776
In some years, the Head Court also met again to discuss other matters:
9 Nov 1765 - Michaelmas Head Court also considered reform of Guild Box and charitable fund
14 Mar 1768 - state of the harbour
14 Jun 1768 - founding the east pier at the harbour
Minutes of meetings of the Bailie Court. Consists of brief notes of proceedings in cases. The minutes also include regulations anent fleshers (8 Sep 1767) and an enactment anent fishers (25 February 1775). From 1769 contains articles and minutes of roup of the Town's common good (shore dues, small customs, salmon fishings, bleachfield, Hospital house, the Shambles, Town's grass, dung from the streets). The endpapers were used as a borrowing register between 1770 and 1776. Dated 14 Nov 1761 - 15 Aug 1765, 28 Mar 1767 - 8 Sep 1767, 1 Apr 1769 - 10 May 1777.
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